Like Thomas Malthus, whose work he cited, Knowlton was worried about the hazards of fertility.
He has a lot of company in that view, going back to Thomas Malthus.
The industrial revolution gave us the Reverend Thomas Malthus, that most fearful of latter-day apocalyptics.
And it still faces the classic constraints, identified by Thomas Malthus in the 19th century, of land and water.
We often hear that Thomas Malthus' dire predictions about population growth were wrong because humans innovated solutions to food shortages.
Thomas Malthus also make predictions, and revised them repeatedly during his lifetime.
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In papers written between 1798 and 1826 the British economist and demographer Thomas Malthus said the world would run out of food.
It is not surprising that some philosophers, such as Thomas Malthus and Jeremy Bentham, tried to remove emotion from their visions of social reform.
These challenges have contributed to a rebirth of the profoundly misguided philosophy espoused by Thomas Malthus, an English priest and economist who lived during the late 18th Century.
The ugly spirit of Reverend Thomas Malthus is lurking again.
The official view relies to a large extent on the theory, put forward by Thomas Malthus in 1798, that China has insufficient land and natural resources to support its population.
Its sorrowful tone echoes the writings of Paul Ehrlich, the Club of Rome, Thomas Malthus and the sob sisters of the 1850s who decried the end of cheap whale blubber.
Answer: He was weighing in on one of the central economic debates of his time, the one that raged between Thomas Malthus and one of the disciples of Adam Smith.
Simon's fact-filled books and essays convincingly ridiculed these heirs of Reverend Thomas Malthus, an 18th-century economist who wrote a widely read tract predicting pestilence and famine as population growth outstripped the capacity to grow food.
It was proposed by French businessman (and economist) Jean-Baptiste Say in 1803, refuted by Thomas Malthus in 1820, refuted again by John Maynard Keynes in 1936, un-refuted by Henry Hazlitt in 1959, and re-refuted by Paul Krugman as recently as February 10th of this year.
Two hundred years ago one of the pioneers of modern economics, Thomas Malthus, was warning that population was growing faster than food production and the only remedy, if you are willing to accept a lot of dead people as a remedy, would be that population would eventually be held in check by famine.
With Hard Times (1854) - a critique of the political theory of utilitarianism which holds that the proper course of action is the one that seeks the greatest good for the greatest number of people - Dickens set himself against thinkers like Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith and their influence on government policy.
Thomas Robert Malthus was then at the height of his fame and the harvest failure seemed to bear out his pessimism.
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